Chris Dodd, apparently, is making lobbyists cry, because he’s so, you know, mean to them.
I wonder if that includes Dodd’s former staff director, Richard Tarplin, who was chairman of the major lobbying firm Timmons & Co., before he left to start his own firm, catering to biotech and health care companies with issues before Dodd’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee. Tarplin also represented Freddie Mac, whom Dodd protected from oversight.
Is Dodd’s former healthcare aide Debra Barrett, now a lobbyist for generic drug giant Teva pharmaceuticals, crying?
How about Dodd’s long-time chief of staff and presidential campaign manager Sheryl Cohen, a lobbyist at American Continental Group, where he clients include insurers.
Another former Dodd chief of staff, Ken Crerar is president of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, and, in that capacity, a registered lobbyist.
There are plenty of other Dodd staffers now lobbying. Maybe they are consoling their crying K Street colleagues.
